Hampshire Hub Partnership

Local Open Data

Mark Braggins

@protohub

Contents

1) Open data - What is it and why does it matter?

2) Give me the data (about this place, this / these topics)

3) Local Open Data

4) A bit about the Hampshire Hub

5) “Engineering Serendipity”

6) Questions and discussion

Open dataWhat is it and why does it matter?

Facts and evidence to enable public, voluntary and private sector organisations to:

• Provide better local services for people – through planning and targeting for specific

local priorities and needs.

• Support strong communities where people feel they belong – through services that

are more open, transparent and accountable to local residents and communities.

• Secure cost-savings and efficiencies for public sector organisations and

partnerships.

• Support businesses to grow and create jobs – through developing local economies,

and secure economic growth.

• A means to unlock facts and evidence held in different organisational and system

silos, and thus realise the benefits above.

• Ensuring that data can be used in new, innovative ways by new audiences including

local residents, communities and businesses.

Data

Open Data

The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can

be quickly and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.

Open Data

Communities

Geo Selector

Give me data about this place / these topics

http://equipment.data.ac.uk

Publish a spreadsheet

on your .ac.uk website

containing a single

column, with

"Description" as the

heading and each row

containing the

description of an item of

equipment.

The rise (and rise) of local open data sites…

The world doesn’t end at the county line

• Many of us have different roles

at different times of our lives

e.g.

• School governors

• Elected councillors

• Employees / managers

• Volunteers

• Business leaders / employers

• Open data can be valuable for

decision-makers in all of these

examples

A broad, strong Partnership

There are currently 21 22* Hampshire Hub partners. These include:

● 11 District Councils

● 2 National Parks

● County Council

● Fire Service

● British Army

● 3 unitaries

● Police

● DCLG

● Ordnance Survey*

Hampshire Hub extends beyond

‘just’ Hampshire, and includes the

Isle of Wight, South Downs National

Park, several neighbouring

counties, and will include

benchmarking data for all of

England.

Currently just public sector, but watch this space...

Area Profiles - Introduction

● Profiles automatically

generated from

underlying data

● Currently Includes:

○ 298 parishes

○ 330 wards

○ 11 districts

○ 3 unitaries

○ 1 county

● Further refinements to

follow, including

‘configurable’ profiles

● More ‘local’ data

● Local commentary and

analysis to be added to

profiles

Some Hampshire Hub initiatives

● Planning Register for Hampshire & Isle of Wight (also

Surrey)• The project led to creation of a national standard for planning data

used by ODUG for the Local Authority incentive scheme

• Working with My Society who are developing the ‘Open Planning’

tool

Hampshire Hub Initiatives

● Aerial photography for the whole of the county

released as open data (also height and near

infrared)

● Weather You Do or Whether you Don’t

● Crowd-Sourcing Landscape Change

● IC Tomorrow - Using data to support

independent living

● UK Space Agency Earth Observation data -

flood warning information system

● Open Cities Data Platform

● (Open) Data Co Ops investigation

Not all instigated by us

"If you open things up, good things happen"

● BlueLightCamp in May 2014 helping

tackle issues around emergency services

and resilience

● Know Now / Hartree Centre: “Weather

You Do or Whether You Don’t” - extract

value from historic data - use to inform

future decisions

● February 2015: Open Data Camp

● May 2015 Hampshire Hub Open Data

Jam

Hacking can be...good!

"If you open things up, good things happen"

http://earth.nullschool.net

“Engineering Serendipity”

21-22 February, in Winchester

Thank You

Questions and

discussion

http://www.hampshirehub.net

@markbraggins @protohub